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So cool to see a great guy hit one out of the park. But you know, it was built into his life! Ryan’s life, Ryan’s environment helped shape him into the entrepreneur he is. (His whole family is) You see you have the opportunity to create a different life for your kids by getting them involved, getting them to find the passion in your business that they love. It’s there. Could be sourcing, could be listing, could be photography or social marketing. You see, let them find their lane and watch them bloom like Ryan. Great job Ryan’s parents!
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Ryan: [00:00:00] A person would come to us and say, Hey, I have this product or this service. All I would do is simply say, Hey, I will charge you this. Our, our affiliate network was a cost per acquisition company or a pay for performance, a company. So when somebody, when I would produce a sell for somebody, I’d say, Hey, I’m going to charge you $40 for every sale. I get you, and they’d go, great. I would just turn around to my publishers in my affiliate network and I’d pay him 35, so I would be basically a glorified broker. I’d be the middle guy putting the two people together.
Cool voice guy: [00:00:35] Welcome to the ECOMMERCE. When we focus on the people, the products, and the process of ecommerce selling today, here’s your host, Steven Peters in.
Stephen: [00:00:49] I am excited to talk about my sponsors today, Gaye Lisbey’s, million dollar arbitrage group. Amazing, amazing group. This is a teacher. This is a Gaye, she was a teacher. She is a teacher. Still. You need to learn. This is the type of environment you want to be in because she’s going to help you understand why, and I think that’s the hardest part of this business is understanding why. Why is the red one popular one? The green one isn’t? Well, there’s usually a reason and what Gaye does is probably parse that better than anybody and she’ll explain the reasons for those things. I think that’s really powerful. Yes, she puts out a list. You’re going to get a good use of that list if you get in the group. Now here’s the deal. The group isn’t always open, right? So you get on the waiting list and you can join the waiting list through my link.
Stephen: [00:01:35] Doesn’t cost anything to get on a waiting list and if you like her service, which I find that most people do that, that’s why there’s not so many openings. Um, you’ll be with her for a long time. And so it’s amazing. Freedom Dot com. She’s part of Andy Slamon’s group, amazing freedom.com. Forward slash momentum. And you’re going to get in the waiting list. That’s all I can get you on right now. You can use my name and see if that gets you anywhere, but what I like about in the uh, what I like about what they teach in that group or the things that are going on, you know, the current things. I’ve seen a lot of stuff going on about stores going out of business. Well here’s where an opportunity is, here’s why you want to do this. Hey, be cautious about this, you know, with toys r US coming out, you’ve got to think about this and that’s the learning that you need to do.
Stephen: [00:02:19] And Gaye is better than anybody else I’ve seen. So amazing. Freedom Dot com. Forward slash momentum will get you to the waiting list. Then hopefully I can get you in the group and then you’re going to see me in there and we can chat anytime you’re ready. Karen lockers, group solutions, the number for ecommerce solutions, four ecommerce.com, forward slash momentum. It’s going to save you 50 bucks. Karen’s our account manager. We recommend her to everyone because she’s done so well for us. I mean, that’s quite frankly the reason we’ve been paying her for last few years, but she’s become an important part of our team. Her and her team are so involved in our account. I just see the emails coming back and forth, hey, we did this for you. I just saw two listings today. I’m like, wait a second. Why did they show I didn’t put any listings up?
Stephen: [00:03:01] They got a. They got a set off to the side by Amazon and they reactivate them for me. You know what I mean? That’s the stuff that just happens when you have a strong team and I can’t recommend Karen enough if you use my code momentum. Karen pays me and I want to hide that. Of course we all know that, but you’re going to save $50 and it’s a great opportunity to really, really build out your team with somebody you can trust. That’s why I recommend them. So solutions four ecommerce solutions, the number four e-commerce dot com forward slash momentum. It’s gonna save you $50. Oh, and by the way, she’s going to do an inventory health report. Why is that important? Well guess what fees are going up, is your inventory health number declining like ours is? Well, here’s why, and here’s what they can do.
Stephen: [00:03:49] What I like is I get a spreadsheet from them and it says, Hey, here’s a bunch of inventory, here’s what we recommend. And I’m like, Yep, refund. I mean delete, returned to us, blah blah blah, whatever it is and it’s or destroy and it just happens. That’s what I like. The other thing that I have Karen helped me with a lot is creating new listings. You know, we do a lot of the research ourselves. We upload our images and then boom, magically the listing goes live and I don’t have to worry about it. Those are the services that Karen offers. CanNot recommend her enough solutions. Four ecommerce.com forward slash momentum. Save 50 bucks. Use My code. You save $50 a month every single month and it’s a great service. Plus you get that free inventory health report. I think it’s a really powerful way. So I can’t, uh, I’m so excited how many people have been joining her because I see it and I’m excited because the messages I get from people are saying, hey, this is great.
Stephen: [00:04:42] I finally feel like I can focus on something else because Karen and her team are watching this for me and you know, I highly recommended next up is scale sellerlabs and scope and we’ll set it wrong. It’s, it’s amazing. I mean, it really is amazing when you sit back and think about, hey, I want to get this product up and it’s similar to this product and that’s what that product does well, well therefore, if that product as well, they have the right keywords, they’ve chosen things correctly. So guess what, you scope and you could see all that stuff. And that’s what the most powerful thing in the world is to copy somebody who’s done it right. That’s what you want to. You want to take advantage of that, right? I mean, it’s, it’s fair to see. And so therefore you can take and apply it to your listing and immediately get that same benefit.
Stephen: [00:05:29] That’s what scope does for me. Sellerlabs.com, forward slash momentum. It’s going to save you $50 on the service. Oh, by the way, it’s free to try, so sign up, try it and say, oh, this is how it’s done. Boom, and then you’re going to. The light’s going to go on and you’re gonna be like, man, I can get my products out there. I just can’t wait. Can’t wait. So are labs.com forward slash momentum? The other day I bought another domain. Yes, I bought another domain. It’s almost like A. I’m admitting guilt, but it’s because I had an idea and it was something that was a pretty good idea. I think it’s going to go pretty far and so what do I do? I go to try go daddy.com forward slash momentum and save 30 percent. So domains aren’t very expensive. You get a few services, it adds up a little bit and I usually buy three years.
Stephen: [00:06:20] I usually by privacy, by the way, I recommend that to buy that. You know, it’s not that much money, but when you can save 30 percent it makes it that much sweeter and it makes it easier when you’re buying domains, especially if you buy a bunch of domains. I am a domain collector and so I do tend to do that, but that 30 percent makes it a lot easier and I used to go daddy because what I like is I can pop in an address I’m thinking and it’ll say nope, nope. Could try this version or try this extension and then boom, there it is. Hey, you better hurry before it goes away. And they’re right. You know, and so try Godaddy.com forward slash momentum save 30 percent. Also want to mention about grasshopper. Was that just talking to somebody the other day? And they were like, Oh yeah, use this company called grasshopper.
Stephen: [00:07:02] I’m like, Dude, did you buy it through my link and save 30 percent? Hello? No, they missed that. So save 30 percent. It’s try grasshopper.com forward slash momentum. No surprise there, but you’re going to save 30 percent. And what the real cool part about that is they’re using it for their private label business and it gives them virtually a second phone on their current phone without having to get another number. They can make up a vanity number. They don’t have to go and do all the grief and signed loan contracts. Pretty easy stuff. And so if you’re creating a brand that you want to identify, you want to look professional, you want to look like a real company, grasshoppers, a great tool. It’s an app you put on your existing phone and boom, you now have a customer service to. You now have a sales department. You don’t have a manufacturing division. You could forward it to somebody else. You can have it go to different voicemails, different departments, and it’s all included. So try grasshopper.com, forward slash momentum. Save 30 percent.
New Speaker: [00:08:17] Welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast. This is episode 329. Ryan Gardner, man. Oh Man. You are going to see what a brand looks like. You’re going to get to see that somebody who created a brand, him and his brother created a brand from nothing but have developed it so well. What? What it’s phenomenal to me is, you know Ryan takes care. He’s careful with his words. He’s very humble, but he’s careful to say, hey, we did a whole bunch of things right now. They did some stuff that they learned from, but all the stuff that they’ve done in their life up to this point has built them to this place where they’re able to take and make this leap into this business because they saw the opportunity. Why did they see the opportunity? Because their eyes are opened. If, if there’s nothing else that you get from this business.
New Speaker: [00:09:07] So think about this. The Times that you went into target and scanned the end cap and then all of a sudden you’re like, Huh, if I buy this, I can make this amount of money. Your eyes got open, right? All of a sudden your perspective change. He would’ve never believed it. When you tell your friends that you can go into target or Walmart and buy stuff and resell it on Amazon and make money at it, they all look at like, come on, that’s impossible, but you now know better, right? So you have perspective. They took this perspective, saw an opportunity that was pointed out to him and he’ll explain it and ran with it. That’s the difference they executed. They did it a whole bunch of things right is Ryan says, but they took action and that’s the. That’s the essence of this conversation is taking action.
New Speaker: [00:09:49] He is a really good example about the three opportunities to make money in your life. None of us are over the third. I don’t care how old you are and I’m an old dude. I’m not over the third. I’m still in the second, so I got the third one come. That’s the third opportunity. So figuring out where you are and then say, Huh, you’re right. This is. I don’t want life passing me by. And I think his advice is so sound. Again, you’ve got to go check out the website. It’s bucked up Dotcom, be UC, k, e, d up to come blow you away. Phenomenal Guy, phenomenal story, and just a great, great business, but a great, you know, great executioner. Again, took action. Let’s get into the podcast. Alright, welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast for excited about today’s guest, Ryan Gardner. Welcome Ryan. How you doing? I’m doing really well. Not as well as you. I mean, is it our precall? We’re talking about Ryan’s out in the mountain state. I mean, it’s not called the mountain state, but I’m going to call it the mountain state. It is just beautiful country out in Utah. Um, and you know, you said off air, no strings. That, that’s the most magical place you’ve been. Most beautiful place you’ve got any because you’ve been all around the world fair.
Ryan: [00:11:00] Yes, I’ve, I’ve traveled quite a bit.
New Speaker: [00:11:03] And so what, what is it that’s so beautiful to you about that place?
Ryan: [00:11:08] Well, you have everything from the mountains all the way down to lakes. Um, you know, you could, I mean in one day you could go skiing in the mountains and then you can come down and go water skiing on the lakes. So it’s a great place to be.
New Speaker: [00:11:24] Do the mountains, still have snow on them right now?
Ryan: [00:11:27] Um, so they’ve pretty much wrapped up with this snow. There may be some glacier. I’m a little bit of glacier stuff, but not, not too bad. Uh, so on the back side of the mountains there may be just a little bit still left, but for the most part they’ve melted. So then
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